GRE Word List
SPRUCE
to make spruce
The meaning of the word spruce is to make spruce.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| abusive | using harsh, insulting language |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| juncture | a point of time |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |